Lap-robe and coat.



-' No 834,418. PATENTED OCT. 30. 1906.

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LAP ROBE AND GOAT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 26, 190 6.

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LEWIS CASS SKINNER, OF'CATAWBA, NORTH CAROLINA. LAP-ROBE AND COAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 30,1906.

Application filed January 26, 1906- Serial No. 297.986.

-To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS OAss SKINNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Catawba, in the county of Catawba and State of North Carolina, have invented new and useful Improvements in Lap Robes and Coats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists of means whereby a lap-robe may be worn or applied to a coat, particularly when used by a rider or driver in a vehicle, in such manner that water cannot enter within the covering so formed.

When a lap-robe is applied to an ordinary coat, rain driving in against the coat is apt to run down between the coat and the lap-robe and thence down onto the seat or into the bottom of "the buggy-box, which is quite disagreeable. The present invention is designed toremedy this condition by providing a flap attached .to the front of the coat, under which the upper edge of the lap-robe may be held, so that water fallin on the front of the coat will flow down over the flap and onto the outside of the lap-robe.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of'the invention, showing line thereof, are flaps 7 and 8, which may conveniently be made to extend to the side or under-arm seams of the coat. One of these flaps overlaps the other and is secured by buttons of other fasteners, as indicated at 9. These flaps are provided on the under side with suitable fastening devices, such as the ordinary snap-fasteners indicated at 10, for

the urpose of engaging corresponding parts at t e upper edge of the lap-robe 11, which may be of ordinary construction and preferably waterproof.

In use when riding in the rainthe upper edge of the lap-robe is placed under the flaps 7 and 8 and secured by the fasteners. Now any rain beatin in on the frontof the coat will run down t 'e fronts and over the flaps 7 and 8, bein thereby carried onto the outer side of the Iap-robe. The coat can be used without the robe by unfastening and removing the latter. By the means shown the water which ordinarily often runs throu h between the meeting edges of a coat onto t e vehicle-seat maybe stopped and carried down outside the lap-robe. The arrangement is such as not to interfere with the closing of a double-breasted coat, because the'respective flaps can be made wide and narrow accordingly.

The invention will be found very useful for physicians and others whose duties require them to drive out in rainy weather.

I claim 1. The combination with a coat having flaps extending across the front thereof, of a lap-robe the upper edge of which is inserted under the flaps and detachably fastened thereto. i

2. A coat the fronts of which have fla s extending across the outside thereof at t e waist, the flaps being secured to said fronts at the upper edge and loose at the lower edge, so that a lap-robe may be inserted thereunder.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEWIS CASS SKINNER. I

Witnesses:

J. H. L. COULTER, J. ILCOULTER. 

